A fundamental problem for the visual perception of 3D shape is that patterns of optical
stimulation are inherently ambiguous. Recent mathematical analyses have shown, however …

The class of geometric deformable models, also known as level sets, has brought
tremendous impact to medical imagery due to its capability of topology preservation and fast …

Art may seem to be in danger of being drowned by talk. Rarely are we presented with a new
specimen of what we are willing to accept as genuine art. Yet we are overwhelmed by a …

Pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision are closely linked areas which
have seen enormous progress in the last fifty years. Their applications in our daily life …

The Core Experiment CE-Shape-1 for shape descriptors performed for the MPEG-7 standard
gave a unique opportunity to compare various shape descriptors for non-rigid shapes with a …

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …

Many objects have component parts, and these parts often differ in their visual salience. In
this paper we present a theory of part salience. The theory builds on the minima rule for …

A cognitively motivated similarity measure is presented and its properties are analyzed with
respect to retrieval of similar objects in image databases of silhouettes of 2D objects. To …

We concentrate here on decomposition of 2D objects into meaningfulparts of visual form,
orvisual parts. It is a simple observation that convex parts of objects determine visual parts …

We describe a flexible object recognition and modelling system (FORMS) which represents
and recognizes animate objects from their silhouettes. This consists of a model for …